Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1887-12-30
LOCAL And GENERAL.

LWAL AND GENEnALs
All, there See you again next year.
Our advertisers were delighted with
their holiday trade.
Some sheep Ia various parts Of the coan-
" have lately been killed BY dogs.
The postoiscs st Parker d new Prssi-
Dental cf1ce. @a #
"A lot of Basler boys are hunting in Arm
strong Co.
IL !. now lime for the weather prophet 70
get in his work on the summer OF 90.
Young ladies are painting pictures Of
frogs. They are % suggestive of Leap year.
--On ard after Monday OF next week, the
stores will again close az r n.
Sheriff Kramer has lost . valuable A.
dernsy c,w. See notice in another place.
Sheriff Krmrg word from Marshall aud
Brown If New Castle. yesterday, tnat TWO
bay mares stolen in that county came In ihis
direction.
Old Mrs. Duncan, who lived ia the
tma | house back OF AcClung AID kirkpsf-
ricks grodery, and VINO WAS sister Of Alex
Wonderly. is dead.
s.. f. Bowser. Esq has removed bis Of.
fee 10 the second story OF the new Diamond
Block, with entrance on Main st.
The barn Of Hiram Flick Of Middlesex
IN. was consumed by fire last Sunday night,
together with the crops. farming implements
and harness. All the live stock was saved.
They have found new mammoth cave
en- tho shores Of Lake Erie. Il is said to
rival the one in Kentucky.
The Hsndish william who closes the door
in summer Is now making his rounds and
leaving the door 30 wide oPen that II strains
the hinges.
The coal miners of the northern part Of
this county, and also those of a1joininY cou a
tia, hsve demanded the adoption Of the Col
umbus scale.
-Jas. D. NcCune, of Dickensou Co., Kan
sss. came all the way 10 Butler county, 70
get his Christmas gift See marriage iicen'
ees.
The youpR man has % far been spared
the pain Of having his best girl suggest TO
bia the good condition Of the roads Tor
s'e'So sss AAN
The days have began to lsngtheu, and
according 70 the old proysrb the cold snouid
begin to strepgtAsa.
"A brakeman o. the s. 4 A. r. 3. named
VIM Boyer whose home was In Mercer Co.,
FIJI between the can Of . gravel train at
Reed station last Friday morning and vas
instantly killed.
The Pittsburg papers Of last Friday an.
neusesd The eSsstiog Of : divorce ~ ne
Heary Z. seiyfrsid, and stated that Mn. =
ALLEGED thar Henry sleeps with razor under
his pillow.
AT B.lskhan, near Baku, Russia, . new
psssoleum spring, which ro~e $50 yards,
Hooded the country, impregneting every
thiae. Nobody vsntures 70 light frs, for
~ tie town will 70 c6 like fireworks.
Mr.. Alexander Gilchrist, an old soldier
Of Indiana. Pa, who u 81 years Of age and
totally blind, gos license last Tuesday 70
marry Miss aaegaret Wise Of Butler. hr.
0iIchrisrs eyes were injured durisg the var
and he receives good psnsion-
"A new ruling Of the post ,flics depart.
ment provides that eli uncalled fer postal
cards shall be returned 10 the writer after 80
DAYS. Also that advertised letters will be
held but two weeks. instead of kDur ~ hefeso-
fore, before bsing scot back 10 the dead letter
c6ics, 1t Washington.
Prom the amount Of hue moral sugges-
tion lately eminating from the pen of Uacis
JAKE ZeigIer, Of the Butler Heratd We bs-
lieye thai he is on the Highway ~ genuine
reform We can never believe IL c,mplste.
however, until he forsakss the Democratic
party and other articles of his idolatry Kit
tanning Republican.
The breaking or falling ID Of the valve
IT the gsson,etsr at MilIerstewn late last
Thursday night caused 40 unusual pressure
In the supply pipes Of the town and tine
flames Of natural gas fires that had been
turned low for the night, suddenly began
reaching for the ceiling. Some one noticed
the danger and had the FIRE alarm soaaded,
and general c0nfagrstion was thus averted.
While two men named Eshenbsugh and
Dunlap WIRE waiting at the depot tor train
ON the 8. Il A. X X last Saturday afternoon,
they quarrelled with each other and during
the fight the right side Of DunIap's nose
called the Alea-wss torn of. Dunlap went
TO DR.. Moore and had it sewed on, and told
the DR.. that Eshenbaugh had bitten II Of.
Eshenbaugh disappeared after tire dght and
the police could not find him.
The Courier Of Bridgton Cumberland
Co., N. j., gives Mr.. Frederick Bowen Of this
I. place very complimentary notice in con.
: nection with the late reunion Of the oath
New Jersey at that place. Hr. d il DOW
miles n attend the reunion and moot his old
comrades. The Courier says, there was no
truer patriot 10 the Union army than honest
Fred Bowen"
There were . few sal homes Ia this
county on Christmas day. aud out fn West
ern and Southwestern Kansas there were
great many, II the reports from that " .tion
were authentic. The people there are said N
be suffering from cold on account Of the
scarcity of fuel and food, and many are re.
ported ~ have perished during the late Storm
Coal u scarce On account Of the rivers being
80 low a. 10 prevent it, shipment, and the
corn crop this year was failure on scconat
Of the drouth. ~
The p. q w. r. r. was not built In 1877.
NO engineer named Sill King ever run on
the roed, and the alleged RAibold ghost was
man Who was amusing hjuself BY playing
ghost, bat still. the story In another column
will b intervening reading 70 people who in.
sist upon believing in shoat.. a brakeman
On coal train hit The "Rsibold Ghost" on
msde the ghost" - rnsd that he swore ven.
gsnce, and laid for that brakeman for days
After, bat never caught him.
The Extension Oil Co. completed two
good wells on their Territory In the Saxon.
burg fsld this week, and pow have good
producers. doing about 900 barrels day,
and property worth anywhere from one n
two hundred thousand d0ilafs. Some of the
boys hsve sold their interest In the compAny.
leaving Jim McNarlin witha fourth, Gihson,
Gahegsn & Younksrsa fourth, Miles Covert
I've thirty seconds o. X. Waldron one-eiehth
Geo. Krugh end Wes. Rnessing one ri tenth
each. Tbs Gamble. Jno. Ekas and A. Will
800 one thiry-second each.r A
--Tbs evening entsrtainments Ia the
Courtroom. in connec ction with the Teach.
err Institute have been unusually good, AMI
have been very we'll pstronized bv the peo.
pie Of this town. For instance, ON Tuesday
evening the ksier. Uederhill Combination
had an audience Of oyer 100 for their concert,
and - the admission fee for perxOns, other
than teachers and those connected with the
Institute was 80 cents esch, that one enter
fainment must have netted the Tnsfitute fund
a handsome profit. The concert and recita.
tions were all that could have been desired,
and al were plessed.
Personal.
Mr.. J r. Smith, foreman Of the casting
hall of the Plate Glass Works wss presented